Saw This
and thought it was interesting.
Comments
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Oh, I wish I was in a land of cotton.
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Oregon has the 1 from Washington, Idaho, and Kansas, heh.
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Only one from Pennsylvania?
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well, it's the teams that are left, so it's not exactly representative of the college football landscape.
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Oregon has starters from 15 different states. I wonder what the others are.
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True, but I do think it better reflects talent levels by state (in addition to raw numbers) than a shotgun blast of numbers of recruits by state that populate all D-1 teams. Good chit @creepycoug
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By that same measure there are 13 players from Ohio but no Ohio team left. So my surprise re: PA still stands
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Yeah, maybe another explanation is the randomness of who's starting for these particular teams. I'm less surprised by Ohio's number because they historically produce dudes but agree a low number for PA ought to raise a flag. I also thought CA was light with 12 but maybe with that state's politics we're discouraging young athletes in Cali from participating in violence. WTF knows, but historically CA is a giant producer of elite talent. The other odd one is LA relative to AL. Those numbers are almost always reversed. It surprises some people to hear it but the state of AL is not a huge producer of D1 dudes and historically pales in comparison to LA, which on a per capita basis may be the most fertile grounds of them all.
Key relevance for this crowd are the PNW numbers. Can't play with the big boys consistently unless you are tapping into one of the bigs.
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There is only one west coast team in the playoffs, so west coast high school representation in this data will be low. The other teams all pull heavily out of Florida, Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Louisiana (and I agree the number from LA seems suspiciously low).
Peak UW has traditionally gotten the best in state talent, but that's a small number of players, they have traditionally relied on CA and HI for the majority of starters. Other west coast teams are similar in strategy, but none except for Oregon made the playoffs, so those numbers are absent from this poll, and if USC had made it, CA's numbers would be much higher.
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I'm pretty sure these numbers include Ohio State.
